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Chair’s Update
ICE Scotland Support Team
Director:
Sara Thiam
[email protected]
Coordinator:
Lynn Dow
[email protected]
Administration Assistant:
Andrew Crawford
[email protected]
Policy Manager:
Kelly Forbes
Kelly [email protected]
Membership Manager:
Donna Surgeoner
[email protected]
Membership Development Officer for
the North and East of Scotland:
Peter Robinson
[email protected]
Marketing & Communications:
Katie Christie
[email protected]
Design:
www.uprightcreative.com
Index of Groups
AACE Aberdeen Association of
Civil Engineers
DAB Dundee Area Branch
EAB Edinburgh Area Branch
GWoS Glasgow & West of Scotland
H&I Highlands & Islands Branch
MGS Municipal Group Scotland
PHEW Panel for Historical
Engineering Works
SGG Scottish Geotechnical Group
SHSG Scottish Hydraulics Study Group
SHG Scottish Hydrological Group
Social media
There are lots of ways to keep in touch
with ICE Scotland:
Follow us on Twitter @ICEScotland
Join the ICE Scotland group
Follow us on Facebook
Checkout our photostream on Flickr
www.flickr.com/photos/icescotland
“... ways in which
members can
inspire the next
generation into
the profession will
inform our future
business plans
and performance
measures.”
ICE Scotland Chair, Professor Gareth Pender with
ICE President, Professor David Balmforth.
#thisiscivilengineering
Help us to spread the word by displaying
banners at your construction site. The
‘This Is Civil Engineering’ campaign
showcases the profession and shows
the public what civil engineering is
and how the project will benefit the
community. This could be through
protecting homes and businesses
from floods, ensuring drinking water
is clean or providing the roads and
railways that keep people connected.
New banners at the Shieldhalll Tunnel,
Ford Bridge in North Lanarkshire and
Forth Replacement Crossing Project are
celebrating the vital role civil engineering
plays in society.
Front cover image:
ICE President David Balmforth (centre) with
left to right: Colin MacDonald, Project
Manager, Network Rail; Stuart Mackay,
Communications Manager, BAM Nuttall;
Sara Thiam, Director of ICE Scotland and
Michael Woods, Chair of Edinburgh Branch.
I am grateful to our Branches and
Specialist Interest Groups (SIGs)
across Scotland for continuing
to provide high quality events
which help members to keep their
knowledge and skills up to date and
provide networking opportunities
with fellow professionals.
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and help the branches and region to
understand our members interests.
This information is vital to provide
interesting and useful events in future
so please complete post event surveys
to help us continue to improve the
quality of our programmes.
The work that our volunteers do to
increase online availability of such
events is most welcome and helps
the region to serve members across
Scotland. I encourage you to make use
of this facility by booking your place at
events online. This will ensure that your
The ways in which we access
knowledge and information has
changed radically in recent years and
the region has a duty to disseminate
relevant civil engineering knowledge
to our members and wider society.
Ensuring easy access to this knowledge
and bringing it to the widest possible
audience is one of the drivers for our
new website launched in May. Please
do have a look to ensure you’re aware
of what is happening near you and
update your contact details in MyICE so
we can tailor the presentations to your
interests.
Increasing member engagement with
our knowledge programme was just
one of the issues explored at an ICE
Scotland Away Day in March where
we gathered ideas and shared practice
across branches and SIGs. Thinking on
how we best capture our members’
expertise to inform opinion and ways
in which members can inspire the next
generation into the profession will
inform our future business plans and
performance measures.
We also identified the benefits to
individuals and their employers from
active involvement with the Institution.
We intend to develop material for
use by the ICE Scotland Committee
and its Branches to help increase our
volunteer base. Our aim is to have this
information available later in the year.
I am grateful to those of you who have
supported our #thisiscivilengineering
campaign launch and look forward
to seeing many more banners around
the country to help us promote the
profession’s contribution to society.
Finally, I would like to thank our
President, David Balmforth, for his
continuing support of the Scottish
Region through his numerous visits to
attend dinners and plaque unveilings in
Scotland.
ICE Scotland Chair
Professor Gareth Pender
@garrypender
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Membership and Qualification
Peter Joins ICE Technician Qualification
A new web based support Programme
is now available for the Technician
Professional Review along with
streamlined application processes.
The main reasons for the proposed
change are to:
• ensure that current and future technician
members feel more welcome
• reinforce ICE’s commitment to
professional standards at all levels
• help to communicate professional
qualification more clearly to wider
society
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Congratulations… New
… to the following Scotland region candidates on
their success in the Autumn Professional Reviews:
Fellows
CEng MICE
Rhona Anne Marsland
CEng MICE
Andrew Benedict Carr
CEng MICE
Ian Donald Martin
CEng MICE
Christopher Ross Chalmers EngTech TMICE
James Robert McColl
CEng MICE
Michael Heung Wha Cheung
James Anthony Frances Mcgilligan
CEng MICE
CEng MICE
Scott Christie
EngTech TMICE
Yvonne Mary McKean
CEng MICE
Alastair Thomas Clark
IEng MICE
Richard Meeson
CEnv AMICE
• John Laidlaw
Autolink Concessionaries (M6) plc
• John G Freer
Royal HaskoningDHV
• Thomas Dougall
The City of Edinburgh Council
• Alaister McIntosh (sp?)
Conoco Philips (UK) Ltd
• Gordon Henderson
Amey PLC
•
•
•
If you’re an experienced professional or
academic or in a senior position in the
industry perhaps its time to put ‘FICE’ after
your name? Our Fellows say they that it
positively affects how your peers, employers
and clients see you and is a clear marker of
your success in the profession.
Reviewers
Sought
Carl James Sinclair Edward Coghill
Michael James Milligan
IEng MICE
More info: www.ice.org/fellowship
Brian Milne
CEng TMICE
Mathew Maxwell Robert Conway
Daniel Mitchell
CEng MICE
IEng MICE
Blair Moffat
EngTechTMICE
ICE reviewers are vital to what we do.
They assess candidates who want to
become professional qualified members
and encourage high standards in the
profession.
Mark Cox
EngTech TMICE
Iain James Moonie
CEng MICE
Jonathan Crawford
CEngMICE
Calum Mcleod Nicolson
CEng MICE
Jamie Cuthbert
IEng MICE
Hayley Outram
EngTechTMICE
Oluwatoyin Dada
EngTech TMICE
Joseph Paterson
CEng MICE
Neil Dewhurst
CEng MICE
Gordon Payne
CEng MICE
Craig Douglas
CEng MICE
Nicola Petrie
CEng MICE
Sean Gallacher
CEng MICE
Stuart John Ritson
CEng MICE
Nicholas Joseph Gillian
IEng MICE
Christopher William Rodwell-Shah
Michael Greenshields
CEng MICE
CEng MICE
Neil Gwynne
ICE Goes Digital
DEADLINE for applications
Friday 21 August
More info: www.ice.org.uk/about-us/
what-we-do/become-an-ice-reviewer
Our new website helps you see the range of
membership, CPD and social events available
locally and we are keen to devote our limited
resources to finding positive ways of keeping
you informed.
While we use our resources as carefully as
we can, we clearly cannot do everything we
would like. This year, for example, we will
not publish a hard copy yearbook, which
is no longer proving effective in driving
member attendance at events.
Instead the Regional Support Team will
focus efforts on working with Branches
and Specialist Interest Groups to find new
ways of publicising the excellent knowledge
events organised for Scottish members by
Scottish members across Scotland.
IEng MICE
Anoushka Johan Ainslie-McAlpine
EngTech TMICE
MICE
Donna Naomi Mackenzie CEng MICE
Faye Mackenzie
CEng MICE
3 bullets to come
Mentoring
Mentoring can be vital in you development,
whether your being mentored or providing
others with your experience. ICE’s mentoring
scheme pairs professionally qualified
members – who are looking for guidance
and advice – with experienced engineering
professionals.
You can help us publicise events near you by
posting flyers on your noticeboard/intranet
at work and circulating event details via
internal email to colleagues.
IEng MICE
Erlend David Scott
CEng MICE
Mentoring can really help to shape your
career and even boost your future salary
whilst being a entor is great for your own
CPD as well as being rewarding.
Stuart Alexander Haddow IEng MICE
William Robert Scott
CEng MICE
More info: bitly for xxxxx
More info: [email protected]
James Douglas Holloway
MICE
Laura Mary Stoddart
EngTechTMICE
OBE for Alan
Past ICE Scotland Chair, Alan Simpson,
was awarded an OBE for services to
Education in the Queen’s Birthday
Honours List in June.
Currently serving as the University of Stirling’s
Chair of the University Court he is also a
Deputy Lieutenant for Stirling and Falkirk.
CEng Craig Alexander Johnston EngTech TMICE
Rorie Alexander Thompson
Jeremy Kinghorn
IEng MICE
Dónal Paul Leddy
CEng MICE
Rheanna Mackenzie Urquhart
Fraser Lindsay
CEng MICE
EngTech TMICE
Lancelot Luk
IEng MICE
David Warley
IEng MICE
Ewen MacDougall
CEng MICE
Alan David Williams
IEng MICE
James Macintosh
CEng MICE
Renata Anna Wilson
IEng MICE
Lindsay Mackay
CEng MICE
Lanying Zhang
CEng MICE
CEng MICE
THIS HANDBOOK FOR VOLUNTEERS
provides invaluable advice
about going into schools to
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the profession and a host
of useful activities. ICE
Scotland also has a useful
presentation template that
can be used. Contact:
[email protected]
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Ensuring ICE Scotland members are kept
informed of the full range of ICE events
near them is important to us.
“You’ll hear about innovative solutions to
engineering challenges and learn about
projects across the country.” Have you got
what it takes?
More info: [email protected]
International Students from
the University of Strathclyde’s
Department of Civil &
Environmental Engineering’s
Undergraduate International
Society at the Helix.
A graduate of Edinburgh and Heriot Watt
Universities, Peter has mentored graduates
and technicians in his current role as
supervising Civil Engineer (SCE).
“Becoming a professional reviewer with
ICE is immensely rewarding.” Says Alasdair
MacLennan who has been reviewing for 25
years.
More info: https://www.ice.org.
uk/membership/grades-oficemembership/technicianmembership.
CEng ivil Eng
Peter is a Chartered Civil Engineer and
former Director for AECOM’s Water Business
across Scotland with expertise in flood and
water management and Water Sensitive
Urban Design (WSUD). He brings 19 years
industry experience and lessons from a twoyear sabbatical sailing around the world.
Under these proposals, Technician
Members who currently use the TMICE
post-nominal letters would use the MICE
designation instead. MICE will then indicate
professionally qualified membership while
EngTech, IEng and CEng will indicate the
level of that qualification.
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Peter Robinson is Scotland’s new
Membership Development Officer
(MDO) for the North and East of
Scotland.
Members are currently voting on proposals
to change the postnominal letters that our
Technician Members can use to show their
professional status.
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Helping Build Careers
Left to right
Grahame Barn (CECA), Phil Ford (CITB),
Laura Browne(SDS), Graham Clark (West Lothian
College), Dr Donna Surgeoner (ICE).
Fellow Profile
New Fellow Professor Becky Lunn has
over 20 years of research experience
in engineering geosciences, with a
particular focus on energy challenges
such as nuclear decommissioning and
disposal, geological carbon dioxide
storage and production of oil and
gas. She is an internationally leading
researcher in geological disposal of
radioactive waste, developing new
technologies for grouting of rock
fractures and for monitoring and design
of engineered barriers. Here she shares
her experiences of beinga Fellow:
Why did you feel that becoming a Fellow
was right for you?
I thought it was important to have
professional recognition for myself as
an academic. In particular, as Head of
Department, my fellowship will help to
strengthen the reputation of the Department
of Civil and Environmental Engineering at
Strathclyde and to underpin our strong
collaborative activities with industry within
both education and innovation.
What did you feel you could bring as a
Fellow?
A fresh perspective on interdisciplinary
thinking – from a female engineer who
started her education as a mathematician,
first came into water engineering as a
Masters student and who is now using
microbes to precipitate calcium carbonate
as an alternative to cementitious grouts in
ground engineering!
What would you say to others
considering becoming a Fellow?
Professional engineers and academia are
interdependent; as a leading academic,
becoming a Fellow helps to ensure a strong
collaborative relationship, within which we
can each learn from the other.
Professionalism
ICE joined forces with the
Construction Industry Training Board
(CITB), Skills Development Scotland
(SDS) and the Civil Engineering
Contractors Association (CECA) to
launch a Foundation Apprenticeship
at the Queensferry Crossing in May.
The Apprenticeship is the first of its kind
in construction and will provide young
people with the opportunity to gain
valuable work experience and industryrecognised qualifications alongside
Highers and Advanced Highers. West
Lothian and Inverness Colleges are piloting
the course which aims to break down
some of the real and perceived barriers to
a career in construction and targets young
women in particular.
Education and Inspiration
Attracting more young women into the
profession is receiving a boost in the
Glasgow area thanks to the efforts of
Branch volunteers. The ‘I Could Be a
Civil Engineer’ challenge badge for
Rainbows, Brownies, and Guides
has been created by Guide Leader
and civil engineer Pippa Higgins and
endorsed by ICE.
Pippa hopes to launch it during the Year
of the Engineer. The pack includes all sorts
A week-long bridge building event at the Contact and Education
Centre in South Queensferry saw ICE’s new cablestayed bridge
being well and truly tested with 270 pupils from 10 primary
schools taking part. The bridge, which is to be used in the
East and North of Scotland, has been sponsored by the Civil
Engineering Contractors Association (CECA).
Law and Contract
Management
(NEC 3) Course for
Scotland
The Primary schools involved incuded Dalmeny, Inverkeithing, North
Queensferry, St John’s, Echline, St Margaret’s, Springfield, Kirkliston and
Winchburgh.
DEADLINE 14 Augustww
To secure your place book online by 14th
August. Companies booking multiple
places can secure a discount.
Further information:
[email protected]
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of activities, including some you will recognise
from the ICE website.
The badge has been introduced in
Norfolk, Hampshire, Wales, Devon,
Yorkshire and Lancashire and word is
spreading fast. We can help spread the
fun, too. Perhaps you could help out
with your local pack?
More info:
[email protected]
New Bridge
for East
ICE Scotland’s Regional Director,
Sara Thiam said: “As an industry, we
are rediscovering the value of the
apprenticeship route for attracting,
retaining and diversifying talent in
our businesses. Young people joining
companies from school and being
supported through college and university
make for excellent engineers and show
greater company loyalty.”
Progress your career with ICE Scotland’s
24 week Tuesday evening course which
will equip you for dealing with contractual
issues with authorities, consultants
and contractors and prepare you for
ICE’s law exam. Held in 2 terms over
2015-16 it will cover law and contract
procedures. The course will be held in
Pinsent Mason Offices in Edinburgh,
Glasgow and Aberdeen and be taught
using a mix of face to face lectures and
videoconferencing. Course costs £750
(initial payment of £375)
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The Education Centre proved an ideal venue – with detailed bridge
models, exhibition panels, spectacular views of the Forth Bridge, the
Forth Road Bridge and the ongoing construction of the new Queensferry
Crossing.
We are grateful for the support received for the event by volunteers from
FCBC JV, Arup, Aecom and BEAR Scotland and to Morrison Construction
for storing the trailer at their yard.
Minister supports Engineering Your Future
Annabelle Ewing MSP, Minister for Youth and Women’s Employment formally opened this event to inspire
young women to consider a career in engineering. Over 90 female students from S1-S3 took part in fun
engineering challenges and speed networking in Glasgow City Chambers with Glasgow ICE volunteers
Emma Dickson and Tom Phillips. The event was run in partnership with Network Rail, Scotrail, Carillion,
Glasgow City Council and the Smallpiece Trust.
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Education and Inspiration
STEM Ambassadors
engineering. She said: “I have taken
part in events ranging from carrying out
experiments in a lorry with secondary school
children to helping a group of boys design a
bike track for their school.”
Karen McKinley
Karen is a graduate civil engineer in
the Bridges and Civil Structures team at
Arup in Edinburgh.
“I like the idea of promoting civil engineering
to young people, encouraging them to
consider it as a future career. An important
part of this is helping them to grasp what
the job involves and how significant it is for
our everyday lives, something that I didn’t
fully understand when I was younger.”
Karen has experienced many new
opportunities while promoting civil
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Earth, Wind and Fire
Designed to engage engineers in the
early stages of their career, Glasgow’s
Graduates and Students’ February
Stirling conference is a key weekend in
Scotland’s young engineers’ calendar.
Engineering through the elements was this
year’s theme with sessions based on the
elements of earth, wind, fire and water.
Karen particularly enjoyed taking part in
the recent Bridges to Schools event at the
Queensferry Crossing. “The Forth Bridge was
my favourite bridge growing up.
Profile
Knowledge
Arup’s Des Correia presented hydraulic
fracturing whilst Ross Speirs from Dundee
City Council gave in-depth look at coastal
protection in the city. Repsol’s Richard
Copeland gave an introduction to the design
of onshore and offshore wind engineering
and Professor Luke Bisby from the University
of Edinburgh presented the concept of fire
as a structural loading.
Sunday’s interactive challenge tasked the
teams with deciding how to deal with a
fictional island which had been struck with
natural disaster. Each team focused on a
different discipline and produced a list of
considerations for reinstating and developing
the island.
“Working with volunteers with different
backgrounds and experiences made
me appreciate the universal appeal of
engineering. It is an important passion to
pass on to younger generations.”
Karen also enjoyed working with children
“their inquisitive nature and infectious
enthusiasm remind me why I became
involved in engineering in the first place. The
children really enjoy having you there and no
two events are the same. ICE Ambassador’s
handbook has some great ideas for activities
so you will find something that suits you.”
Like Alison Karen recommends the
experience for the opportunity to develop
confidence and skills in addressing groups as
well as networking with fellow professionals.
Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, it is
great fun so get involved!”
To become a STEM Ambassador, you need to:
1 Register online
2 Attend a two-hour induction session (held regularly across Scotland)
3 Obtain an enhanced Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) check.
Don’t forget to indicate that you wish to volunteer with ICE.
More info: bit.ly/1e5xCYL
Welcome to Martin
Martin Hughes is ICE Scotland’s new
Education and Inspiration Co-ordinator
covering the East and North of Scotland.
Prior to joining ICE, Martin worked as a
careers advisor with Skills Development
Scotland working with all ages. Martin is
based in Dundee and has worked with the
ICE Dundee Area Branch. He is enjoying
supporting volunteers across Scotland
advising on materials and resources and
coordinating their presence at events.
Graduates and students having fun in Stirling
Profile
Alison Cochrane
Alison is a graduate civil engineer and
works in the Infrastructure team in
Arup’s Glasgow office.
“When I was in school, we were never given
the opportunity to attend STEM events or
have people from industry come in to talk
to us about their jobs. I found out what
civil engineering is from reading university
prospectuses! I wanted to give pupils and
students the chance to find out more about
the industry and perhaps inspire some of
them to consider it as a career.
“Working with students is very rewarding –
they have a unique way of solving problems
and always ask brilliant questions. They are
keen and enthusiastic and remind me that
engineering can be fun and incredibly varied.
Being a STEM Ambassador has improved my
confidence and communication skills, which
are vital to my day job.
“To anyone considering being a STEM
Ambassador, I’d say that you won’t regret
it! It will give you a new perspective on the
work you do, and reinforce the importance
of inspiring the next generation into careers
that they will enjoy.”
New
Crossing
Visit
40 members from Dundee Branch learnt
lessons on a site visit to the Queensferry
Crossing. The tour included the dock area
where the impressive deck sections and main
cable pier terminal boxes are being stored.
A visit to the North shore enabled attendees
to get closer to the north abutment and first
piers of the viaduct.
The tour ended with a view of piers and
deck from the south launch area. Project
Manager, Lawrence Shackman was on hand
to answer questions throughout. “It really
gave a sense of scale,” said Dundee Chair,
Frances Ratcliffe.
KNOWLEDGE EVENTS
Glasgow’s M8 M73 M74 Motorway
Improvements Project event in May gave
an overview of the progress on the ground
and the challenges the construction team
face in delivering this complex infrastructure
improvement project, whilst keeping Central
Scotland’s motorway network open for
business. Presenters included Transport
Scotland, Ferrovial Lagan and Amey.
The Shieldhall Tunnel lecture in March
provided the background context to the
project and provided an understanding
the implications of tunnelling through
challenging ground conditions within
an urban environment and stakeholder/
customer engagement. Scottish Water has
worked with its delivery partners to develop
a strategic solution which will significantly
reduce storm overflow spills, localised
flooding and provides additional storage
capacity to augment the existing wastewater
network.
The transformation of Haymarket Station
area in Edinburgh’s West End was the
subject of an exciting presentation by
Interserve and Arup covering the challenges
of constructing the underground car park,
the acoustic isolation of the buildings and
enabling works to the railway tunnels which
link Haymarket and Waverley stations in a
busy urban environment.
Recorded Events
The following events are available to watch
online if you weren’t able to make it in
person at www.ice.org.uk/eventarchive.
• The Shieldhall Tunnel
• Construction Update on the Queensferry Crossing
• A82 Pulpit Rock Improvements.
AWPR Here
Aberdeen Association of Civil Engineers
received a full briefing in March on the
status of the long awaited Aberdeen
Western Peripheral Route project now under
construction after the First Minister took part
in a ground-breaking Ceremony in February
Initial works include site clearance, site
access works and fencing for the 58km road,
as well as constructing the main site office in
Stonehaven.
First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, attended the ground
breaking ceremony with Council Leaders.
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Emerging
Engineers
Final
Dundee Branch’s Johan Stalder will go
forward to the National Final following
his win at the Graduates’ and Students’
event in Edinburgh in June. His paper
was on ‘Non-Linear Dynamic Analysis –
Singly Curved Space Trusses’.
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Knowledge
Model Students
Six teams from the Universities of
Glasgow, Strathclyde and the West
of Scotland built and tested bridges
using materials including balsa
wood and paper in this year’s bridge
building competition organised
by Glasgow and West of Scotland
Graduates and Students Group.
The University of Glasgow team won
the Strongest and Most Economic
Bridge award for the bridge with highest
load:cost ratio.
University of the West of Scotland took
the ‘Best Application of Engineering
Principles’ prize in recognition of their
decision making, conceptual design
and final model and ‘Most Aesthetically
Pleasing’ category.
Informing Opinion
ICE leads low carbon future
A new taskforce championing the role
of the public sector in funding and
facilitating low carbon infrastructure
is to be chaired by ICE Scotland
Director, Sara Thiam. The taskforce
brings together key figures across the
infrastructure lifecycle in Scotland,
from construction and finance
industries, public and private sectors,
and academia. ICE Scotland Members
Paul Steen (Ramboll) and Brian Vietch
(formerly Arup) provide engineering
expertise.
This independent body was established
as part of a World Wildlife Fund Scotland
initiative to support the ambitious targets set
out in the Climate Change (Scotland) Act.
The act provides a vision for a cleaner, fairer
and flourishing low carbon Scotland.
Sara said: “Engineers understand better
than anyone that the strategic decision we
take now will dictate how we travel, heat
our homes and power our industries now
and through to 2050. Transitioning to a
low carbon economy in Scotland requires
huge investment, much of which needs to
be spent to modernise our infrastructure
networks.”
Left to right: Peter Brum, Robin Nelson, Johan
Stalder, Alastair Templeton, Paul Baralos, Paul Jowitt
Other participants included Peter Brum
from Glasgow West of Scotland Branch
with a contractor’s view of the Loch Arklet
Dam Stabilisation and Robin Nelson from
Edinburgh with ‘Sustainable Wastewater
Treatment Technologies for the Removal of
Endocrine Disrupting Compounds’.
Alastair Templeton, Vice-Chair of the
Edinburgh branch, Senior Engineer on the
Queensferry Crossing, Paul Baralos and
former ICE President, Professor Paul Jowitt
helped with the judging.
Members scoop
top award
World Water Congress
Edinburgh was the focus of
international water resource
management as 900 world-leading
academics, researchers and policymakers gathered for the XVth World
Water Congress.
An ICE-sponsored Special Session on Flood
Risk Management promoted in-depth
discussion on the implementation of the EU
floods directive, flood hazard and climate
change and assessing future flood risks and
opportunities for adaptation in the UK.
A Project Team from Transport
Scotland with the Jacobs Arup Joint
Venture, Ramboll and Forth Crossing
Bridge Constructors won the Ground
Engineering Award for UK (major)
project with a value over £3M.
Carlos Escartin from the Ministry of
Agriculture, Food and Water in Spain
opened the session which included
presentations from Professor Garry
Pender from Heriot-Watt University, Mark
McLaughlin from the Scottish Environment
Protection Agency (SEPA) and Paul Sayers
from Sayers and Partners.
Professor Roger Falconer shared his
work on modelling risk of people safety
and vehicle mobility for extreme flood
events and led a session which also
explored impacts on small business and
adaption and resilience and flood risk
benefits in Blue-Green Cities. Catherine
Butler from Exeter University shared her
emerging findings on social and political
considerations of flooding with reference to
the Somerset levels.
ICE Scotland partnered with the Flooding
& Coastal Erosion Risk Management
Network (FCERM.net) and the International
Association for Hydro-Environment
Engineering and Research (IAHR) to support
this event.
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that would bring the greatest gains for the
economy, society and the environment.
Scotland’s Way Ahead campaign later
this year will raise public awareness of the
benefits that such investment can bring.
Further info: [email protected]
Building
Bridges
Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure,
Investment and Cities, Keith Brown shows
his commitment to promoting a career in
engineering to young people by helping ICE
Scotland launch our new Bridge to Schools
in Newton Primary School in June. “This
is a very innovative, hands-on approach
which provides pupils with an experience
and opportunity to try something that they
perhaps hadn’t considered before – and who
knows, we may even have inspired a few
engineers of the future!” said Mr Brown.
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High Speed Rail
ICE Fellows and senior industry players
joined Sir David Higgins of HS2 Ltd
during a visit to Scotland for an update
on progress and an insight into the
opportunities High Speed Rail offers to
the supply chain in Scotland.
Sir David emphasised that HS2 is a UK-wide
project and part of a national transport
strategy. Those driving the project are
keen to plan ahead and also learn lessons
regarding innovative delivery and planning
approaches from other key projects, such as
T5, the Olympics 2012 and Crossrail.
The extension of the line to Scotland remains
an aspiration of the Scottish Government
and is likely to keep the new cohort of SNP
MPs busy in the coming months.
Kelvin Bridges
Heritage Trail
This new leaflet produced by Glasgow
Fellow, Mike Hackney, provides fascinating
insights into the bridges which cross the
River Kelvin and will enhance the public’s
enjoyment of this city centre route alongside
the River Kelvin.
The taskforce has commissioned research
which makes the case for low carbon
infrastructure. A second phase of research
will identify a long list of types of projects
Keith Brown MSP tries out our new bridge
The bridges reflect the rapid industrial and
commercial development of late 19th and
early 20th century Glasgow. Mike featured
on BBC Radio Scotland’s ‘Out of Doors’
programme in April.
State of the Nation
ICE’s State of the Nation reports give an
update on the condition, capacity and
performance of Scotland’s key economic
infrastructure networks. Work is well
underway on the latest ‘scorecard’
which seeks to inform opinion and
debate and will be launched in
November in advance of Scottish
Parliamentary elections in 2016.
Legislative control of several sectors
considered in last year’s UK State of
the Nation report sits with the Scottish
Government. Only energy and certain
areas of strategic transport are reserved to
Westminster.
ICE’s State of the Nation reports are
respected in policy and industry circles for
their assessment of the key issues which will
impact upon each sector, as well as for the
identification of broader challenges.
Drawing on evidence gathered from
our expert members and external
stakeholders, we will build on the progress
since our last report in 2011 and advise
the Scottish Government on potential
infrastructure delivery improvements.
The State of the Nation Infrastructure
Scotland 2015 report steering group is
chaired by Ronnie Hunter and includes
experts from across the transport, water,
waste, flooding and energy sectors.
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26 November 2015
Glasgow & West of Scotland
Dinner
Incoming President Sir John Armitt CBE,
FREng, FICE, former chairman of the Olympic
Delivery Authority will give the keynote
address.
The Branch’s 111th annual dinner in
November, welcomed 600 guests and raised
£6,665 for RedrUK and ICE Benevolent
Funds.
Aberdeen Association
of Civil Engineers’ 100th
Annual Dinner
Derek Donald and John Whittall
were presented with their 50year membership certificates at
Aberdeen’s dinner in February which
raised £3000 for the Aberdeen
Football Club Community Trust.
John Whittall and Jim Young, AACE Chair
Edinburgh Branch
Annual Dinner
The April Edinburgh Branch
Annual Dinner raised £1,443
in aid of Macmillan Cancer
Support.
Derek Donald and Jim Young
Left to right: Michael Woods, Edinburgh branch
chair, Iain Gray MSP and Professor David Balmforth,
President of ICE.
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